On a Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, you can give your computer a custom audio alert instead of using the generic tones installed by default on your computer. As long as the audio clips are AIFF format, Mac OS X allows you to use all kinds of clips, including musical tracks, a voiceover, or musical theme. Get creative and add your favorite alert sound to your operating system.Step1: Open folder with custom sounds
Navigate to the “~/Library/Sounds” folder in “Finder” Command+Shift+G. The “~/Library/Sounds” folder contains all the custom
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system preferencesUse the Tab key in user-created keyboard shortcuts in Snow Leopard. In OS X 10.5, pressing the Tab key while creating keyboard shortcuts (in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel) didn’t work; the system would just beep and not accept the Tab key.In Snow Leopard you can now use the Tab key in any combination with the Shift, Control, Command, and Option keys. For example, you could change the Exposé All Windows activation keystroke to Option-Tab, which might make sense if you’re used to using Command-Tab to switch applications and want to have a similarly-assigned
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Snow Leopard,
system preferencesIf you want to quickly change your sound input device, simply Option-Click the Sound menu at the top of your screen to enable an alternate menu pulldown list of input devices.
This trick is much faster than launching into the System Preferences and adjusting from microphone to line-in audio source. As far as I know this is new to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Snow Leopard,
system preferencesDan Frakes goes over some of new hidden features in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
This video will be very useful for new users in Snow Leopard.
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preferences,
system preferencesWhile not much of a hint, for those who do not like their minimized windows taking up so much space in the Dock, now you can have them minimize into the dock icon.Open the Dock System Preferences panel,
Check the Minimize windows into application icon option.Once you do that, minimized windows will disappear into their source application’s Dock icon.
Snow Leopard Dock
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system preferencesThe newest version of OS X, Snow Leopard (10.6) has time zone automatically function built into the OS.
To enable thisGo to System Preferences
Select “Date and Time”.
Select the “Set time zone automatically by location” option.This works using CoreLocation, just like the iPhone. Even though it’s just an option. Once you do this, your time zone will change as you travel.
Date & Time Panel
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